Car draft-rigging.



No. 682,562. Patented Sept. 10, 19ml c. s ne-50mm.

GAB DRAFT BIGGING.

(Application filed Sept. 7, 1900.)

(No Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES S. NEEDHAM, OF DECATUR, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO GEORGES. BIGELOW, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

CAR DRAFT-RIGGING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 682,562, datedSeptember 10, 1901.

Application filed September 7, 1900- 'Serial No. 29,269. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES S. NEEDHAM, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Decatur, in the county of Macon and State of Illinois,have invented an Improved Car Draft-Rigging, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to car draft-riggin gs.

The primary object of the invention is to provide means in combinationwith draft-timbers to prevent splitting of the ends of saiddraft-timbers in buffing, thus greatly increasing the durability of saiddraft-rigging.

To this end my invention consists of the various features, combinationsof features, and details of construction hereinafter described andclaimed.

In the accompanying drawings a draft-rigging of my invention is fullyillustrated.

Figure 1 is a top plan View, partly in section, of a draft-rigging of myinvention. Fig. 2 is a side view thereof; and Fig. 3 is a sectionalview, partly in diagram, on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1.

Referring now to the drawings, A designates the draw-bar of a cardraft-rigging; A, a yoke secured to the inner end of said drawbar; Afollower-plates, and A draft-springs, all of which may be of any usualor desired construction and will be'readily understood by personsfamiliar with the art from an inspection of the drawings without adetailed description thereof.

What may be termed the frame of my improved draft-rigging consists ofdraft-timbers B, which terminate short of the end of the car, andmembers B, which extend from the ends of the draft-timbers B to the endof the car and comprise top and'bottom plates b I), connected by meansof a longitudinal web b Formed on the inner ends of the frame members Bby suitable webs are sur-' faces 12 12 of which the surfaces 19 abutagainst the ends of the draft-timbers B, and the surfaces 11 embrace theexposed sides thereof. The members B are secured to the draft-timbers Bby means of bolts 5 and of the draft-timbers B are flush with the end ofthe filling-block B and the surfaces 6 are extended, so that they alsoabut against said filling-block. The movement of the followerplates A islimited by means of webs 19 which form the ends of recesses or pockets Bin which said followerplates and adjunctive parts are confined. Formedon said draft frame members B, adjacent to the outer ends thereof, areprojections b which form guides for the draw-bar A.

While a draft-rigging of my invention is of course adapted and designedto be applied to new cars, it is especially adapted for use in repairingold cars in which the draft timbers have been split or broken. All thatis nec essary to apply my improved draft-rigging is to cut 0d thedraft-timbers, preferably so that the ends thereof will be flush withthe end of the filling-block. Bolt-holes are provided in said members ofsaid draft-rigging frame in proper position to receive the bolts b b,all of which were present in the car as originally constructed. Adjacentto the outer ends of the draft-rigging frame members B two sets ofbolt-holes b b are provided, of which the holes I) are adapted toreceive the bolts of a sixty-thousand-pound car and the bolt-holes 6 areadapted to receive the bolts of an eighty-thousand-pound car. Thus asingle set of patterns may be used to make the castings for both sizesof cars.

I claim- A frame for a car draft-rigging comprising draft-timbers, afilling-block and metal frame members, the ends of said draft-timbersand I of'said filling-block being flush with each other and said metalframe members comprising rigid surfaces which abut against the ends ofsaid draft-timbers and of said fillingblock and comprising also webswhich embrace only exposed outer surfaces of said draft-timbers,substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have hereuntoset my hand this 6th day of August, 1900.

CHARLES S. NEEDHAM.

Witnesses:

JOHN GREEN,

GEO. B. ASHTON.

